My Thoughts on Comments

Credible Comments

1. The person who wrote this comment was responding to an article about the Baltimore riots rather passionately. He or she seems extremely heated over police brutality and maybe even a little scared that it may never end in places like Baltimore. It's obvious that he has heard/seen first hand what exactly happens in these kinds of situations and he just wishes for them to stop.

2. Based on this comment, 'bacchys' seems to believe in equality between law enforcers and the average citizen as well as basic human rights. The whole scenario he gave about "five cops rolling up" and arresting someone for basically standing outside led me to believe that. They feel as if that is unfair and unjust and expressed that with the way he described this scenario.

3. I believe that this comment came from a credible source because not only does he bring in facts and statistics in his first paragraph, but he never once mentioned race. People often use racism as a blanket especially in police brutality cases. Whether he feels that way or not, the fact that he didn't take this as an opprotunity to rant about how Freddie Gray was African American increased his credibility for me at least.

1. This comment was made in response to an article declaring the charges against the six police officers involved in Gray's case. This person seems to be anxious to know the facts and definitely the answers to all of his questions. In his opinion, grand assumptions are being made without enough evidence which doesn't add up.

2. Based on the comment, this person seems to simply value the truth. He or she brought up several good points and questions regarding the autopsy report and the injuries Gray was said to have suffered. Three seemingly important questions were brought up that are essential to have answered before making an educated opinion about this.

3. The credibility of this comment was because of the fact that he or she wasn't giving opinions, they were giving known, released facts. They were focusing on what should be seen in Gray's autopsy based on what was heard from the article they just read.

Lacking Credibility...

1. Joseph was responding to an article about Baltimore preparing for more protests during Freddie Gray's hearings. He seems to fear America becoming very liberal and less republican and seems to wish more violence would be used by the police force in Baltimore.

2. Based on his comment, Joseph seems to value republicanism and law enforcement. Violence doesn't seem to make him nervous or sympathetic towards the people protesting in memory of Freddie Gray. 

3. He began lacking credibility somewhere between savages and Zimbabwe. What does Zimbabwe have to do with protests for Freddie Gray who lived in Baltimore? Since when are protesters referred to as savages? It all seemed a bit angry and over the top to me. But he IS the Chief Executive Officer at Stay-at-home parent so I could be wrong...

1. Crystal was responding to the same article as Joseph was. She seems to be a bit anxious or fearful about a massive group of young people spending their time focused on one issue dealing with legalities while they should be spending more time on their education. 

2. She seems to value education and peace as she stated the protests were pointless and "will only result in the arrest of more young people". Focusing on the bigger picture, Crystal would probably like these people to do the same.

3. Based on her comment, Crystal lacked credibility because she didn't really mention anything about the article or Freddie Gray specifically. She just kind of took the opportunity to preach about how education is the most important thing for young people today, which is all great, but isn't really a great response to this article.

Reflection

After reading Bailey's post regarding Hope Solo's arrest, I felt the same way after writing my post about comments. There are always those people who comment and seem like they have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. I felt the same way about Joy's post. One of the not credible comments definitely wasn't as bad as the ones I was seeing or the ones in Bailey's post. However, the commenters were putting some of their fears in their comments maybe not even realizing it which is interesting. The fears weren't really the same because they were commenting on different topics.